Coffee pods
Aluminium pods
Nespresso: accept household and office pods of all brands for recycling.
Options are available for office quantities. More details at www.nespresso.com/au/en/how-to-recycle-coffee-capsules
- Pods can be dropped off at the Nespresso stores
- Mailed in using a Nespresso Australia Post satchel
- Dropped off at a local drop-off point:
- Durable Recycling (Hackham Recyclers – 16 Cottage Lane, Hackham
- Chemology, 4 Walla Street, Lonsdale
- Woodcroft - Morphett Vale Neighbourhood Centre, 175 Bains Road, Morphett Vale
- Willunga Environment Centre, 15 High Street, Willunga
- Good Guys – 820 Marion Road, Marion
Other free recycling programs: For L'OR, Moccona, illy, Campos, or Lavazza pods. Visit www.terracycle.com/en-AU/brigades/jde-capsules-au
Plastic pods
Put in the red/waste to landfill bin.
Compostable pods
Pods Certified Compostable in Australia (look for the seedling logo or Australian Standard AS 4736) may be able to go in your kerbside organics bin. Most can’t go in most home composts or green organics bins as they have plastic or metal components.
Ensure any plastic or aluminium foil has been removed.
Remember – if no logo, it doesn’t go in the organics bin.
Biodegradable pods
Biodegradable is not the same as compostable.
Put it in the red/waste to landfill bin.
Unless certified compostable, biodegradable plastic can leave micro toxic waste.
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